News and Events for Nantucket Island
The Nantucket Film Festival has announced the opening night selection for its 2016 festival will be The Orchard/A&E IndieFilm’s LIFE, ANIMATED, directed by Roger Ross Williams. A real-life fairy tale about Owen Suskind, an autistic boy who used Disney animated films to communicate with his family, this award-winning documentary is […]
Mercy Moyo will give an artist talk, exhibit recent work and teach two painting workshops at the Visual Arts Center, 24 Amelia Drive Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) has announced that will be their second 2016 Artist-in-Residence at the Visual Arts Center (VAC), 24 Amelia Drive. Hailing from Zimbabwe, Moyo […]
• by Sarah Teach • Editor’s Note: All of Nantucket watched The Grammy Awards show on February 15, rooting for our home-town talent. We’re very proud of you, Meghan: congratulations … all your hard work and sacrifice paid off! We knew you had it in you, and in tribute, here […]
E. Vernon Laux: Nantucket’s Bird Man • by Sarah Teach • Editors Note: We were saddened today to hear of the passing of Vern Laux this morning in Nantucket Cottage Hospital. To honor his contributions to life on the island, we are reprinting an interview from 2012. Fly high, Vern! […]
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) is pleased to announce the return of Winter Discovery Days, a free after-school program for children and their families this winter. This program features different crafts and activities every weekday Monday through Friday from February 1 through April 1, 2016, from 3 to 5 P.M. […]
Marlon James, winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize, widely considered to be the world’s most important literary award, will make a featured appearance at the 2016 Nantucket Book Festival to discuss his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. When asked about the significance of a Jamaican winning the […]
Nantucket Cottage Hospital welcomed the first island baby of 2016 early on the morning of January 2. Maria Raquel Pineda, a healthy baby girl, was born at 4:51 a.m. the morning of January 2, weighing 6 pounds, 12 ounces, and measuring 20 inches long. She is the daughter of Noé […]
The Screenwriters Colony and Nantucket Film Festival (NFF) are thrilled to announce the launch of a new writers program, the Screenwriters Colony: Episodic Comedy, running June 10-23, 2016. This inaugural collaboration will provide four emerging episodic comedy writers with an all-expense paid trip to Nantucket for an immersive residency and […]
